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Our Life in Gardens

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
This is the third book we have written together, though separately we have written others . . . But to say ‘written separately’ makes no sense, for when two...
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Home to Roost
Chasing Chickens Through the Ages

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
In Home to Roost, Bob Sheasley tells of the intertwined relationship between humans and chickens. He delves into where chickens came from, what their DNA tells...
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Skipjack
The Story of America's Last Sailing Oystermen

St. Martin's Press
In Skipjack, Christopher White spends a pivotal year with three memorable captains as they battle man and nature to control the fate of their island villages...
  
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Part of the Pride
My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa

St. Martin's Press
About a year ago, film started to circulate on YouTube® of a remarkable man named Kevin Richardson, an animal custodian in a South African animal park. The...
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Power of the Dog
Things Your Dog Can Do That You Can't

St. Martin's Press
“They’re so human!” we emote. But recent scientific findings point to dogs being very different than us humans. Dogs can do many things that we can’t,...
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The Big Necessity
The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

Holt Paperbacks
“One smart book . . . delving deep into the history and implications of a daily act that dare not speak its name.” —Newsweek Acclaimed as “extraordinary” (The...
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Central Park in the Dark
More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife

Picador
Central Park in the Dark explores a natural world that flourishes in the midst of a crowded and mechanized city. These exuberant essays lead the reader through...
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The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights
Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble

St. Martin's Griffin
With more than two million members and supporters, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the world’s largest animal-rights organization, and...
  
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The Mad Fisherman
Kick Some Bass with America’s Wildest TV Host

St. Martin's Griffin
Charlie Moore was married with two kids when his bait-and-tackle shop went under. A fisherman and an entrepreneur, Charlie set out to star in his own fishing...
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Travels in the Greater Yellowstone

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Award-winning nature writer Jack Turner directs his attention to one of America’s greatest natural treasures: the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. In a series of...
  

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Cradle to Cradle
Remaking the Way We Make Things

North Point Press
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism "Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other...
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Birds of North America, Revised and Updated
A Guide To Field Identification
Golden Field Guide from St. Martin's Press

Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
Spot the silhouette of a Northern Goshawk in flight. Identify the raucous call of the Red-winged Blackbird. Discover the secret of picking out a Chipping...
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Dark Summit
The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

Holt Paperbacks
"A dramatic story, ably and convincingly told . . . A chilling look at the precarious line between success and tragedy."—Kirkus Reviews On May 15, 2006, a...
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The Control of Nature

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested...
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The Outermost House
A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

Holt Paperbacks
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald...
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Dominion
The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

St. Martin's Griffin
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over...
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Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet
The New Geopolitics of Energy

Holt Paperbacks
"Klare’s superb book explains, in haunting detail, the trends that will lead us into a series of dangerous traps unless we muster the will to transform the way...
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Encounters with the Archdruid

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the...
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Simple Prosperity
Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle

St. Martin's Griffin
In his bestseller Affluenza, David Wann and his co-authors diagnosed the debilitating disease of over-consumption. In Simple Prosperity he shows readers how...
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The Meadow

Holt Paperbacks
An American Library Association Notable Book In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider's web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year...
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Birds
A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press

Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
This guide will help you identify-quickly and easily-the birds you are most likely to see. It tells you: What to look for Where and when to look How to...
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Fierce Heart
The Story of Makaha and the Soul of Hawaiian Surfing

St. Martin's Press
Fierce Heart is the biography of a community and a portrait of its people. Although Makaha is a small, isolated town on the Western coast of Oahu, it has...
  
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Song for the Blue Ocean
Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas

A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book
Part odyssey, part pilgrimage, this epic personal narrative follows the author's exploration of coasts, islands, reefs, and the sea's abyssal depths. Scientist...
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Babylon's Ark
The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
THE ASTONISHING STORY OF ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST ANIMAL RESCUES. When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing:...